The recent abolition of the Default Retirement Age (DRA)is a much needed lifeline to those nearing retirement, according to Richard Collinson Co-Founder and CEO of RetireEasy.co.uk. The newly launched site provides the only comprehensive, online tool that empowers those in or nearing retirement to plan for their financial future.

Those coming up to retirement need all the help they can get to weather the punishing financial climate, says Lorna Bourke. Retirement planning is the area where savers most seek help from the experts, and in today’s investment environment it isn’t difficult to see why.

“Retirement,” writes leading 50+ writer Tony Watts, “is being redefined.” So how do you retain control of when you put your feet up?

AS European leaders struggle with the possibly terminal problems of the euro, and the US is buried equally in debt, these are grim days for savers of all ages – and especially for the over-50s thinking of giving up work. A survey by RetireEasy.co.uk, an online financial planning tool, reckons 79% of 50 -to -70 […]

There is plenty to worry about if your are retired or about to retire. The value of your pension pot has probably fallen over summer. Plus annuity rates are down, inflation is up, and many income drawdown investors are facing a shock drop in income.

Award Winning UK based start-up RetireEasy launches the UK’s first comprehensive solution for retirement planning.

Interest rates below inflation… annuity rates at historic lows… sliding property values… now is not necessarily a good time to retire. But is it all bad news? Tony Watts looks at what those in or entering retirement need to do to get the most from the years ahead.

Many people now look to their property as a key means of keeping them afloat in retirement – but what is the reality? By Tony Watts

“The company behind it, RetireEasy,have built in almost every conceivable“if” and “what”,enabling you to personalise your own “spreadsheet”- which is stored online for you to access,review and amend at any time…….Clever stuff.” Tony Watts Leading 50+ journalist andcommentator